Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I hope it sustains him on his long journey into obscurity , because I intend to make sure Michael Stein never works in the travel industry again . ’ |
| 2 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
| 3 | ‘ I object to the principle of the PLR not because I wish to do hardworking authors out of money — I would be eligible for PLR but I have declined to register on principle . ’ |
| 4 | Now it 's me doing the only thing I can do because I have to make some money . " |
| 5 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 6 | I have ended the story with killing and bloodshed because I want to leave that picture before your eyes — a picture which stands for all the anguish and hardship and disappointment and dangers anyone going to Eretz must expect . |
| 7 | Yesterday Trevor , a former science teacher at Staindrop Comprehensive , near Darlington , said : ‘ Because I want to keep good relations with my customers I decided to give full refunds to all 147 people who had tickets . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I only came back because I wanted to take another look at you , to see if you 'd really changed . |
| 9 | We had split up because I wanted to spend more time with my mates . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The substitution was purely tactical because I wanted to get some height up front , ’ said Francis . |
| 11 | The final list — the Outer Face — is a little more difficult to compile because you have to ask other people to be honest with you . |
| 12 | Funny that , because you seem to spend enough time here . |
| 13 | Because you need to get maximum use of your time in an on-the-road campaign a last minute change , even a small one , can have immense repercussions . |
| 14 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
| 15 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 16 | because she wanted to watch that programme |
| 17 | Olive Edis is significant technically because she refused to use artificial light , was one of the first to use early colour photography ( Autochrome ) and cinematography — movies . |
| 18 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
| 19 | Erm during the executive erm Mary raised a point from the joint planning team about the erm charter and the remarks made by Dr. on that , would you like to say something on that Mary ? because we want to take some action . |
| 20 | Control — because we have to control that network |
| 21 | Because we have to have another door so they giving me a third off . |
| 22 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 23 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 24 | Ultimately the pressure for reform came from the Whitehall ministries because they had to use local government to execute many of their plans , particularly for local economic development and urban renewal and they found that the machinery was simply ineffective . |
| 25 | Though many genetic fluctuations do occur , most die out because they fail to confer any survival advantages on gut-dwelling microbes . |
| 26 | Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas . |
| 27 | Many woman-centred psychologists evade this difficulty , because they choose to work outside psychology , in women 's studies , or outside academia , in practically-oriented women 's organizations . |
| 28 | Most people study psychology because they want to understand human behaviour and question the relevance of work on animals to their overall goal . |
| 29 | By the early fourteenth century , however , both king and pope were embarrassed by this : Edward I and Edward II because they preferred to invoke royal prerogative and national custom ; the pope because he was anxious to disown , tacitly at least , any such concession . |
| 30 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |